The gamers have joined the culture war! Well, technically they started it, but... they re back. The younger generation of gamers have sided with Nick Merckx and the Call of Duty boycott, and Target has lost $15 billion off their market cap.
00:00:42.000I guess it's younger generation of gamers?
00:00:43.000This is big news as far as I'm concerned.
00:00:45.000Call of Duty has pulled, Activision has pulled, a streamer named Nick Merckx who has millions of subscribers because he tweeted, leave the little kids alone.
00:00:59.000He appreciates everybody who has his back.
00:01:01.000They pulled him and said, yeah, well, we're going to remove your stuff because we celebrate pride here.
00:01:05.000Then another very big streamer, DrDisRespect, came out and said, no dice, sided with Nick Merckx.
00:01:12.000What we are seeing here, while it may have always been gamers who are very much opposed to the creepy woke stuff, we are seeing now high-profile personalities join in, call for boycotts of these companies and these games outright on livestreams to massive waves of younger people.
00:01:28.000Because regular people are rising up and they're saying no more to this.
00:01:31.000So when you get a guy, and you know what they're saying?
00:01:33.000They're saying that Nick Merckx's dad instincts kicked in because he just had a kid, and all of a sudden it's like, now he gets it.
00:01:40.000As the younger people are getting a little bit older and they're realizing what woke people are doing in their name, they're starting to say no.
00:01:47.000So not only are we seeing this major move in terms of a call for a boycott on a major video game, Target has reportedly lost $15 billion off their market cap.
00:01:57.000Now, we've got CNN and the likes of other companies, other media outlets saying, no, no, no, no, it's nothing to do with the boycott, despite the fact that Walmart isn't suffering.
00:02:20.000So basically, when you buy this coffee, you are supporting people who don't hate you, and who want to help have a positive impact on culture, make more coffee, make more coffee shops, and just grow a company that exists outside of the woke corporate structures.
00:05:46.000If a leftist showed up to a school where they were protesting, parents were protesting these books, an Antifa person said, leave the kids alone.
00:06:03.000If a leftist said, leave kids alone, they would assume it was a leftist statement and say, the right is targeting kids.
00:06:09.000Nick Merckx didn't say anything specific other than leave kids alone.
00:06:13.000It could have been left or right wing.
00:06:15.000So there's something else you can see here.
00:06:16.000The fact that simply by saying leave kids alone, the left got triggered, angry, and pulled him from this game shows they actually understand that they are targeting children with something negative.
00:07:16.000The hypocritical thing is this is supposed to be like the party of choice.
00:07:21.000And that's really what this battle is about, is that parents want to be able to have the choice to have their kids opt out of the Pride Month educational program that they have mandated every child has to go through.
00:07:38.000Now, a long time ago, when I was in school, you could opt in or opt out of sex education.
00:07:44.000No, I'm sure as it relates to heterosexual education, I'm sure that's still the case.
00:07:50.000But apparently in Pride Month, there's no opt-out.
00:07:54.000Like, these are the guys of choice, right?
00:08:15.000I thought about it when I was six and seven in like first and second grade, and like what I would have felt going into that would have been very afraid.
00:08:23.000Maybe that sounds crude, but it would have made me nervous, because I didn't know what it was, and everyone's screaming, but it's a chance to not have to do boring schoolwork, so a lot of people are into it, but I can see how kids would be not comfortable, but not saying anything about it, because when you're seven, what the hell can you say, and who can you say it to?
00:08:43.000And this is just one event that's happening in the Unified School District of Los Angeles.
00:08:50.000They've now instituted, I think it's like five separate days of trans awareness, and a day of silence, and another pride month, and this and this and that.
00:09:01.000If these people celebrated like the 4th of July, maybe perhaps like they celebrated this, we'd have a very different country, right?
00:10:27.000Nowadays, well, and what happened was the left realized that to Break that reproduction of the society is the only way that you're gonna get to a socialist United States so they go into the schools using a free airing method and They break that hegemony by teaching children
00:10:48.000Their morals and their, you know, moral, the way that they want society to be.
00:10:55.000Paulo Freire was a Portuguese Marxist and he is the most influential in current schools.
00:11:06.000Basically, he wants to have generative issues.
00:11:10.000So the way that he wants to, or the way that his Method is teach children in a way that introduces political themes to them, right?
00:11:20.000So if you're teaching math The Frearian Method figures out a way to not only teach the math lesson, or teach the math lesson, and additionally teach the political aspects, or teach political aspects.
00:11:34.000So like how many stars are on the flag, how many stripes are on the flag?
00:11:37.000Yeah, stuff like that, but, um, so they would, maybe they're talking about, uh, you know, maybe they're talking about how much it costs to get into, maybe they're talking about money, right, or talking about, you know, using money as an example.
00:11:51.000They would try to direct the conversation, and this is just an example.
00:11:54.000This is not the directed way, but they would try to say, well, maybe you're going to get everyone in the car and go to the amusement park.
00:12:03.000Well, there's a bunch of ways that you can make that political.
00:12:05.000First of all, you could talk about the car.
00:14:14.000It's all grooming in a variety of ways, but there is overt targeting of kids with sexual grooming, but there's also ideological grooming, and it all follows exactly what you said, generative issues.
00:14:26.000I know I explained it a lot, but just for the sake of context for anybody who hasn't heard, I'll give you a very simple version.
00:14:35.000Modeling is a normal job, lots of people model, they're famous models.
00:14:38.000The groomers, who use modeling to groom kids, will say, you're a model, it's normal, everyone does it.
00:14:43.000Then they'll say, why don't you wear this bathing suit?
00:14:46.000Then they'll say, why don't you take this piece of clothing off?
00:14:48.000They're slowly inching you towards something sexual.
00:14:51.000If you want to make the claim that you're just trying to educate kids, it would not start with books that teach the kids how to use gay dating apps.
00:14:59.000There's a book called This is Gay, for those of you that don't know, a teacher in Illinois gave it to middle schoolers, and in the book there is instructions on how to use adult anonymous gay hookup apps.
00:15:10.000Like, that is beyond just the intro level grooming.
00:15:16.000Like, she's outright now instructing them on these behaviors.
00:15:19.000Well, and to your point on the introduction, Target, right, where you had this huge protest over Target, they're introducing bathing suits.
00:16:35.000The judge said, until we have a resolution, you still can't wear that shirt.
00:16:39.000And my response is, okay, well then they shouldn't fly the pride flags.
00:16:41.000If saying there are two genders is offensive to some, the pride flag, which appropriates God's covenant, the rainbow, should be offensive to Christians.
00:16:49.000And that's a protected class as well, religious belief.
00:17:06.000I want to jump to this next story from comicbook.com because the boycotts are getting crazier!
00:17:12.000Dr. Disrespect boycotts Call of Duty following Nick Merckx's controversy.
00:17:16.000They say following the call of duty has enjoyed an absurd level of success blah blah blah.
00:17:21.000Last night Nick Merckx's skin was removed from the game etc etc we know this.
00:17:24.000Dr. Disrespect uninstalled Call of Duty and said he won't return until they apologize or add Nick Murk's Operator Bundle back into the game.
00:17:35.000Nick Merckx, a prominent streamer with, I think like 8 million followers, no he's got more than that, he's got 6 million on Twitch, he's got 4 million on YouTube, he's got 2 million on Twitter, said, leave the little children alone.
00:17:59.000I don't know if Bud Light has anything to do with it, but I wonder.
00:18:02.000If after everyone saw a 30% sales drop from Bud Light for doing this, two things happened.
00:18:09.000People became less afraid, thinking, hey, you know what? If I speak out, I can clearly see
00:18:14.000most people are on my side. And the other thing was opportunists thought it was popular and they
00:18:21.000But now, real quick, now you have more prominent, high-profile people willing to boycott powerful brands over going in this direction.
00:18:30.000Yeah, the Bud Light fiasco and boycott and success of the boycott Globally showed people globally that you have control with social media of markets and now they're emboldened and are willing to twist the market at will It can go bad as well.
00:18:47.000I mean it can go in any direction depending on what side you're on I've always been concerned about people like organizing a mass withdrawal of money from a bank on a day We've been trying to crash the economy Bradley, I wanted to ask you on this.
00:19:20.000And so what, since they are some of the largest shareholders through the dollars that they manage in retirement funds and everything else, they have massive amounts of voting power there.
00:19:32.000And so what they do is push initiatives like this at board meetings because they've been able to install their board of directors on those corporate boards of governance.
00:19:43.000And that's how we get here, and that's how decisions like this get made.
00:19:47.000In simple terms, what is ESG for people who don't understand it in plain language, and how does it affect this?
00:19:52.000So, very short and quick, ESG, which stands for Environmental Social Governance, what it is doing, it's forcing dollars towards ideas instead of returns.
00:20:03.000Which is the opposite of the free market.
00:20:05.000Dollars should flow towards returns, not ideas.
00:20:09.000And what they are doing is coercing capital towards ideas instead of returns.
00:20:15.000And which is going to ultimately, I think, destroy the free market in this country.
00:20:19.000You know, Vanguard, State Street, and BlackRock, I noticed, with almost every public company we talk about, has about 22%.
00:20:25.000The three companies combined, BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, have about 22% of all these public companies.
00:21:29.000Voting with 25% power doesn't sound like a whole lot.
00:21:32.000The bigger issue is, if they have 7% of, insert company, and they go and they say, we're holding about $250 million of your company.
00:21:42.000If you don't do this, I'm sorry, we're going to have to protect our clients by selling off all of this stock, which will cause a panic and a dump on your company.
00:21:53.000And they're all three coordinated in their approach.
00:21:55.000I mean, 22%, look, I mean, is a substantial amount of control given, I mean, depending on the publicly
00:22:01.000traded company that you're talking about.
00:22:03.000And it gives them a tremendous amount of leverage.
00:22:08.000BlackRock was certainly not a majority stakeholder there, but through working through proxies who they were able
00:22:15.000to put onto the board, activist members, in 2021, they were able to put board members on there coordinating
00:22:23.000with their other ESG woke capitalist buddies.
00:22:27.000They put activist board members on there that moved and were successful in reducing oil production at ExxonMobil by 20% and increasing green energy production by 20%, which then, guess we could have used that oil production right about now, right?
00:22:41.000So can you, it was three companies, right?
00:23:33.000Raleigh, for a moment I wanted to follow up on this ESG stuff and kind of play the devil's advocate role because a lot of people are pushing for this.
00:23:40.000Many people are saying that free markets aren't working for everybody across our countries nowadays and we need to start worrying about the stakeholders, i.e.
00:23:48.000employees or workers, more than just the shareholders, like where the capital is coming from.
00:23:52.000How would you respond to somebody who's saying this is really about helping workers Yes, stakeholder capitalism is fake.
00:24:54.000The follow-up was going to be that, like, oftentimes that, because it's, this is what people would argue, that when it's just the shareholders in charge, some companies get gutted out and it doesn't help the workers, and some people are just looking to benefit on the back end, stock side, finance side of it.
00:25:08.000So, that's kind of, I mean, shareholder capitalism, I mean, is not helping the employees.
00:25:17.000The stakeholder capitalism, the idea of it is supposedly... Although the devil's in the details and it doesn't actually, but... I misspoke there.
00:25:24.000So, in terms of shareholders, some of these guys do get some type of stock option and blah, blah, blah, and some of this.
00:25:30.000The share or the stakeholder version of that It's not helping the employees either.
00:25:37.000So at ExxonMobil's board, it's not a bunch of employees that said, like, we want to reduce oil production so we're working less.
00:25:43.000No, this was pushed by BlackRock and then EngineOne, which was a former employee of BlackRock, who started their own company, and were able to get onto that board to help facilitate bringing these leftists onto the board to try to destroy ExxonMobil from the inside out.
00:25:59.000I mean, all this does is essentially Redefine, and this is where it gets slippery, and this is by design, what risk is.
00:27:41.000That last talk I showed wasn't Vanguard.
00:27:43.000It was a different company called American Vanguard, and they're confusing, and it's actually very difficult to find who are the largest shareholders of Vanguard, which is different.
00:28:31.000Nietzsche did the same thing when he talked about the Ubermensch, the overman.
00:28:36.000He believed that without God, man had to come up with his own new morality and normal man, us, would not understand The overman's morality and the overman isn't in any position or isn't obligated to explain to us what they're trying to do is nothing new like the idea that we can reshape the world to prevent climate change, which I mean, there's a lot of things that I have problems that I have with the arguments for climate change, but
00:29:12.000The effort to remake humanity always ends with piles of dead bodies.
00:29:35.000Mao believed that the sparrows were a problem.
00:29:40.000And they weren't communist, so they were eating the seed.
00:29:44.000And so he told all the people in China, kill the sparrows, don't let the sparrows land.
00:29:50.000And what happened was, because the sparrows were not there to eat the bugs, the bugs ate all the crops and there was a famine and millions of people died.
00:29:59.000When you try to affect the whole world, when you try to change mankind, humans Yes.
00:30:06.000screw it up and it always ends in piles and piles and piles of dead bodies. This
00:30:12.000ESG stuff is aimed at affecting climate change. You talk about the stuff that was
00:30:18.000going on in I think it was the Dutch farmers that were having the problem
00:30:22.000that's because they wanted to they wanted to limit how much they could
00:30:25.000produce. They want to limit how much you can use fossil fuels.
00:30:30.000All of our fertilizer is fossil fuel based.
00:30:34.000If you don't have fertilizers, then you're going to have famines.
00:30:38.000Millions and millions, if they are successful in getting control of basically the markets, global markets, there will be Millions and millions and millions and millions of people, probably a billion people, that will die of famine.
00:31:36.000But look, it's very interesting because that is kind of where we are right now.
00:31:43.000But to his point, in Ireland, they're telling them that they're going to have to cull, that means kill, all of their cattle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cows.
00:31:55.000I mean, this is how they've lived there for centuries, for centuries, right?
00:32:00.000I mean, so what is that going to do To the island of Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, right?
00:32:05.000And at the end of the day, we have this collusion as it relates to ESG in between corporate power and left-wing ideology.
00:32:13.000So it's this unholy merger of corporate power and left-wing ideology that you've seen before.
00:32:39.000Regular people, we saw parents rising up saying, get this stuff away from my kids.
00:32:43.000We're seeing gamers who have long been in the culture where in fact gamers started the culture war back with Gamergate, now still being very active and now taking center stage once again.
00:32:54.000And now we have the Bud Light Effect, Target, Kohl's, North Face.
00:32:58.000These companies are getting slammed by people who are just saying I'm fed up.
00:33:21.000We're watching that as it relates to Target.
00:33:23.000But in a not-too-distant future, if we don't continue to push back against this, And look, I think we are starting to chip away at this ESG issue.
00:34:09.000Obviously, we've done a lot in the state treasurer's office, which I'm in currently on ESG.
00:34:14.000But some of the other big ones is China, something that we're going to have to contend with as a country and moving forward.
00:34:22.000I mean, the idea that we're still making pharmaceuticals over there, I think, is hugely problematic.
00:34:27.000They're going to be one of the biggest threats, I think, in the near and long-term future for us.
00:34:34.000But domestically, where I'm focused, and I run what's called the HOPE Scholarship here in West Virginia, it's an educational savings account.
00:34:41.000We must, and underline this, we must eliminate the Department of Education.
00:34:51.000Yes, no, the Department of Education must be eliminated.
00:34:55.000If you look at when Jimmy Carter instituted that to where we are now, we used to be number one in education in the world and where we are now, it is not working.
00:35:05.000And so we need to move that money back to the states and then take a portion of that money to create educational savings accounts all around the country because not as many states are as free as West Virginia.
00:35:16.000Every American child, whether in California or New York, needs to have educational opportunity and choice.
00:35:21.000So that's going to be a big issue as well that I'm going to work on.
00:35:47.000In a lot of Trump's statements, he actually sounds less pro-life than Ron DeSantis does.
00:35:52.000I think Ron DeSantis was trying to push six weeks bans while Trump puts out tweets blaming the abortion issue for Republicans losing in the midterms.
00:36:00.000So, how do you square, you know, supporting, endorsing Trump and being so pro-life when there are other more pro-life people in the field?
00:36:08.000Yeah, you know, I've seen some of those statements.
00:36:11.000I can't say I'm necessarily happy with that.
00:36:13.000In West Virginia, we passed a ban and it's zero weeks in West Virginia, so obviously... When was that?
00:38:08.000How would you respond to somebody who says, we've seen enough nepotism in our country and government already, and that you undoubtedly do benefit from the family name, your aunt still keeps her, she has a hyphenated last name to still keep that more name.
00:38:23.000How would you respond to somebody that you're benefiting from your family name and, you know, not necessarily your merit?
00:39:15.000I don't think Rand would have had the opportunity, though, had it not been for his father.
00:39:18.000And I'm not knocking your credentials, but the benefit from your grandfather was very influential, and your aunt is still very influential.
00:39:25.000But let me just say, does Ron have any other kids?
00:40:42.000I know you're not, and look, Why aren't you a fan?
00:40:44.000Because she signed on to red flag laws and then lied about it.
00:40:49.000What do you think of that? Look, I don't support red flag laws. And look, we're related. She's my
00:40:54.000aunt. I love her. But, you know, doesn't mean we're going to agree on everything. Right. So
00:40:59.000it's I don't support red flag laws. I don't support any restrictions on the Second Amendment
00:41:03.000whatsoever. We don't need to do. Yes. We don't need to do anything new as it relates to the
00:41:08.000Second Amendment. Yes, we do. We need to repeal. Oh, yes.
00:41:11.000We have to repeal. I'm talking about moving forward on any type of restrictions whatsoever. Hey,
00:41:16.000look, we've been winning on two way across the. Yeah, I know. We.
00:41:23.000If you look at the maps of gun rights, it's just been victory after victory after victory.
00:41:26.000I gotta be honest, I think people, they hear us complain about bad things, and they get blackpilled, and they're like, oh, Tim's blackpilled, and I'm like, look man, just because I'm saying like, hey, thing over here is really bad does not mean the totality of things are moving in a positive way.
00:41:41.000That's why I often try to say like, look, I know it's getting really, really bad, but my vision really is the end result is gonna be awesome stuff happening.
00:41:48.000Like, the reason we are in a conflict culturally with, like, the targets, the Bud Lights, the Anheuser-Busch or whatever, is because we are now standing up and pushing back.
00:41:57.000When you get sick, you are already infected.
00:42:01.000That pain you're feeling is fighting back against it.
00:42:04.000So the stuff we're going through now means we have engaged and we are seeing victory after victory after victory.
00:43:55.000I pull up the video and I'm like, there's the video of it happening!
00:43:57.000And it's remarkable to me how many people are willing to opine on the Ukraine conflict without having done the research into the Burisma scandal, the Qatar Turkey pipeline, Gazprom, etc.
00:44:07.000We've been talking about this for some time.
00:44:09.000I went through Ukrainian, Russian, British, French, and U.S.
00:44:13.000news reports tracking down what was going on.
00:44:16.000I went through Wikipedia, which is, I know, not the best, but I'm trying to connect the dots, and the dots are pretty clear.
00:44:22.000The guy who was running Burisma, you got a former CIA guy on the board, you got Hunter Biden on the board.
00:44:27.000It is clear that there is something nefarious going on.
00:44:31.000When Biden came out and said, you know, we want to fire the prosecutor because he wasn't good, and then he gets fired and they put someone good in, lies.
00:44:39.000The CEO of Burisma had fled the country, and the prosecutor had about a dozen or more, this is according to Matt Taibbi, open investigations into Mykola Zlochevsky and Burisma.
00:44:50.000When the prosecutor got fired, those investigations go away, Zlochevsky returns to the country.
00:46:01.000Teflon Don, many people have taken shots at him.
00:46:04.000He's gone through many impeachments and whatnot.
00:46:06.000I can't even remember all of the scandals.
00:46:08.000But it seems as though they're saying there's like a smoking gun here where there's this transcript in the indictment where it's saying that he's talking to a staffer about declassifying when he's not able to.
00:46:18.000Have you seen this stuff and do you think this will be the one that gets him?
00:46:21.000Let me just, real quick, sorry to interrupt you, but hey, you want to buy a bridge from me?
00:46:34.000And I would say in the psyche and the conscience of the American people out here, who are not kind of like brainwashed into thinking that Trump colluded with Russia and all these other things, I don't think they're going to believe this either.
00:46:48.000I mean, how many of these things are going to keep coming up that they're going to try to get him on?
00:46:54.000To answer your question, in New York he's been charged with 34 felony counts.
00:46:58.000Yeah, 34 felony counts in New York and nothing came of that.
00:47:01.000He's the first former president to be criminally indicted, as I understand.
00:47:06.000Many people say this will escalate with a tit-for-tat once a Republican is elected.
00:47:10.000Do you want to see different former Democrats indicted on things?
00:47:15.000Well, I'm sure they could find the Zbyrzma stuff with Joe Biden, but would you like to see Democratic former presidents also searched through and possibly indicted?
00:47:23.000I mean, not in any political manner, but look, if they have broken the law, then yes.
00:47:28.000I mean, then yes, look, I mean, people need to be answerable to the law.
00:47:32.000And I mean, our current president certainly isn't.
00:47:36.000A good prosecutor could indict a rock, is, you know, one of the sayings.
00:47:41.000If you have a good prosecutor, you could find anything to indict on.
00:47:44.000So that's why I kind of ask, it becomes political once they start indicting Republicans and then them trying to do it back to them.
00:47:49.000So on that... Yeah, and this isn't the first time you've seen this, right?
00:47:53.000So they started down this path, impeachment with Richard Nixon, and then they came back in revenge on Bill Clinton, right?
00:48:01.000I mean, so you've seen some of this before, but it's like, you've gone through two impeachments with Trump, you've gone through all these investigations and all the... I mean, It is, in one sense though, I'd say what's very interesting about it is that it shows you the power of the deep state.
00:48:17.000It shows you how powerful they are and it is exposing who is actually in charge here.
00:48:30.000It's the relentless nature of the organization.
00:48:32.000It's funny that me saying Joe Biden was in charge is a joke and everyone laughs.
00:48:36.000Man, I saw a video of him the day just staggering around on stage with a vacant stare and then I saw his profile and it looked really like a fat cheek.
00:48:43.000I was like, Mr. Magoo is our president!
00:49:23.000Hunter could play a very critical role in ending the war in Ukraine, I do believe.
00:49:29.000All he would have to do, I think, for a brief period of time, given the nature of his consumption, boycott, perhaps, Russian liquor and hookers, and the war's over.
00:49:39.000I mean, I think it would have an effect on the economy that would be irreversible, perhaps.
00:49:57.000You know, I think the unfortunate thing is that you're not seeing, and of course out of this administration, there seems to be no diplomatic overtures whatsoever to try to end the war in Ukraine.
00:50:11.000And there needs to be some type of negotiated end to this.
00:50:16.000If you think that The Ukrainians are going to be able to categorically and strategically defeat the Russian military and defeat Russia.
00:50:43.000I don't know if that's necessarily possible, but there needs to be some type of diplomatic overtures from our Secretary of State, who seems to be... Has anybody seen him?
00:50:59.000I feel like I've heard more from Henry Kissinger, who's like a hundred Right?
00:51:03.000I mean, like, he's talked about this more than Tony Blinken has.
00:51:06.000It's funny you mention that, because Tony Blinken actually went to Henry Kissinger's 100th birthday in New York City, like, sometime last week.
00:51:13.000Not to derail the conversation too aggressively, but I think it kind of relates to this.
00:51:17.000President Joe Biden has said that if Taiwan is attacked by China, then we will defend them.
00:51:21.000Do you think the United States should come to the defense of Taiwan if attacked by China?
00:51:25.000Yeah, I think that there is a, we do have to deter China as it relates to Taiwan.
00:51:33.000And I think that there can be deterrence in that because you're talking about a massive area that is hugely important to the United States as it relates to the economy of the United States, right?
00:51:47.000I mean, somebody said a long time ago, if you want peace, prepare for war.
00:51:51.000Isn't it, if we do say we will defend Taiwan, that would be setting deterrence then?
00:51:57.000So can we get a yes or no answer on it?
00:51:59.000I mean, deterrence is different than war.
00:52:01.000Well, we'd be deterring China by telling them that we would come to the defense of Taiwan.
00:52:06.000Yes, but deterrence is also power projection, right?
00:52:09.000So we, I'll give you a great example, we deterred the Soviet Union for decades, right?
00:52:14.000I mean, that was the detente, that was the deterrence strategy there.
00:52:18.000Deterrence can be a viable option here, because they're going to make the calculation, because for them, they're going to have to look to see, okay, they're going to take airstrikes into Taiwan.
00:52:29.000Eventually, they will have to put boots on the ground in an amphibious assault, right?
00:52:32.000But then they're also going to have to take out our assets in Third Fleet, right?
00:52:38.000That is going to then incur massive casualties on their side and ours.
00:52:42.000Amphibious, they've not done amphibious invasion, right?
00:52:45.000So they're trying to think that hundred mile stretch that they're going to have to cross, what that looks like.
00:52:49.000We have to make that calculation as difficult as humanly possible for them.
00:52:54.000In fact, just could Joe Biden has repeatedly said that we will militarily intervene if Taiwan is attacked by China.
00:52:59.000Do you agree with Joe Biden or disagree?
00:53:01.000I feel like I know we could put a lot of but at the end of the day, like, yeah, I mean, that statement is like, so basic, I guess it's what he says is why I'm asking it kind of specifically like that.
00:53:11.000Yeah, I mean, It's like with anything with him.
00:53:14.000It's like it's such a basic answer It's like we should like what his answer should be is like we should deter China from invading Taiwan He'd argue that he's deterring them by saying that he would come to their defense And Trump did something similar.
00:53:28.000Trump famously bragged that he told Xi Jinping and Putin that he would nuke, what did he say, Shanghai?
00:55:12.000I'm like ridiculously anti-intervention and anti-war, but the only thing I can say is when war starts, Your pieces of paper, your Constitution, your laws mean nothing.
00:55:42.000So we're talking 100 miles away from U.S.
00:55:45.000territory, not to mention our waters, If it came down to actual bombs falling, do you think anyone is going to stop in the middle of a war and be like, okay, we've got a wave of enemy troops and spies in this area and you go, hey, I have a right to stand here.
00:56:01.000They're going to be like, dude, my children will die.
00:56:06.000When war happens, you're not, you're going to be hard pressed to find anybody.
00:56:09.000So we talked about this the other day with Abraham Lincoln.
00:56:12.000We were taught throughout our lives how much of a hero he was, but yo, dude had a suspension of habeas corpus corridor going up through Maryland.
00:56:21.000The federal government arrested members of the Maryland legislature because they had pro-Southern sentiments.
00:56:29.000Ain't nobody care what you think your rights are when people are fighting for their lives.
00:56:33.000So, if war were to break out, if China invades Taiwan, we can all sit back and argue the merits, but if it came down to bombs dropping on our allies, I don't think there's even a question to be had.
00:56:45.000Like, war hit us the moment other countries are being blown up.
00:56:49.000Now, I know there's a bunch of very, very hardcore anti-interventionists.
00:56:54.000A lot of libertarians are gonna be like, under no circumstances, but I'm like, It's not so simple as just to say we can't.
00:57:00.000If the war escalates into US territory, we have military bases in South Korea, maybe we shouldn't, but if they're under fire, if their ports are blockaded, if there is massive warfare breaking out, we are in it whether we want it or not. 100%.
00:57:50.000Certainly, I guess with his statement, he's trying to do that.
00:57:52.000But what we should do is everything in our power with our allies there is to deter war.
00:57:58.000South Korea, we have tens of thousands of forces there.
00:58:00.000Whether you agree with that or not, they're there.
00:58:02.000Japan, obviously in Okinawa, we have forces there as well.
00:58:06.000And we have a lot of trade in between Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and this country.
00:58:13.000Those international shipping lanes and waters We'll be closed.
00:58:17.000I think it's 60% of world GDP that goes through those states?
00:58:20.000Yes, they will then control that then, right?
00:58:22.000So our goods and services will not be able to reach those areas any longer.
00:58:26.000And maybe somebody might say, well, we shouldn't trade with them anyway.
00:58:30.000Well, I will tell you as an economic effect here in the United States, it would have a massive negative effect in the short term, and likely the long term.
00:58:38.000I want to ask a question for the people, the anti-interventionist individuals in the chat.
00:58:43.000We have military bases in South Korea, we have military bases all over the Pacific, we have allies.
00:58:50.000If war broke out with Taiwan, and then we were just like, we can't do it, we don't want World War III, so we don't get involved.
00:58:58.000If China then starts blockading this area of the Pacific, causing resource strain in South Korea, which causes economic collapse, and do we then say, okay, we've got to at least tell them to open up trade, and do we then militarily intervene?
00:59:14.000Not in terms of war, but to send a presence to be like, we are opening up a trade corridor back off.
00:59:20.000What happens if, in the conflict, missiles go flying, and you end up with elements of Japan or South Korea taking damage?
01:00:30.000The US is just... I believe that the establishment, as we refer to it, is the empire.
01:00:38.000And the American people want nothing to do with any of this.
01:00:40.000We want to live our lives, work hard, and have a great country.
01:00:44.000Instead, we have these powerful, worldly interests, global interests, internationalists, spending our money and our labor on Ukraine, printing money, Federal Reserve, all that garbage that I think is trash.
01:00:55.000The question realistically though is, and genuinely, not rhetorically, when do you think there is a line at which the U.S.
01:02:02.000That is what the deterrence is at play there.
01:02:05.000So now if North Korea wants to do anything to the South, or China wants to help North Korea do anything to the South, it's going to cost you 30,000 American lives.
01:02:12.000And the consequences of that in mainland USA... Yeah, if we'd had 30,000 troops in Ukraine, Putin would not have invaded.
01:02:52.000implemented a no-fly zone over Ukraine and asserted interest in the region, they could have done the same thing Russia did with Crimea with a vote, and you have a lot of people who are pro-West in Ukraine.
01:03:36.000I don't think we're at war with Russia.
01:03:37.000We have US troops on the ground in Ukraine.
01:03:40.000We support their allies, but to say we're at war with Russia is like to say that we
01:03:44.000were at war with Russia when we fought in Vietnam.
01:03:47.000So you're saying that actual US Special Forces on the ground in Ukraine, armed with US weapons,
01:03:54.000providing US intelligence and US missiles and NATO resources to Ukrainians with US veteran
01:04:01.000volunteers is not the US at war with Russia.
01:04:03.000Was that reported beyond the Independent New York Times?
01:04:06.000Yes, it was reported in the New York Times.
01:04:07.000The Green Berets are definitely- I think it allows me to get a good point, because in Vietnam we did that, but we weren't at war with China.
01:04:22.000said, we have an interest in Ukraine, we are training them, we are going to supply them, before the invasion, it would have put Russia in a very difficult political spot.
01:04:32.000The Biden administration, the neocons, the US establishment wanted the war because we can't invade Russia and remove Putin.
01:04:43.000Now you look at the drone strikes in Moscow, you look at the terror attacks, you look at the incursion into Russia, Belgorod, now it's, oh well, Russia started the war and now people are fighting back.
01:04:55.000What may happen is if Putin gets desperate and escalates in Ukraine, The US can then say, we have no choice, Putin must be removed, he used nuclear weapons, and then we go into Russia.
01:05:05.000So, and to that point, why didn't they invade when Trump was president?
01:05:10.000Because they probably thought he was going to nuke Moscow.
01:05:45.000No, but I do think that is part of the actual, like, a serious answer to your question.
01:05:50.000I think John Bolton helped play a role in deterring... Yeah, but there was a serious level of deterrence because, I mean, Trump was not to be trifled with.
01:06:16.000But also, Donald Trump's interests are in strengthening the United States, making America better, securing our borders, ending this ridiculous imperialism, and I think Putin was like, okay, we don't need war.
01:07:11.000That's why we see that across the board.
01:07:13.000And then what we're seeing with ESG is effectively these DEI offices and businesses, it's just like how the Communist Party of China puts their Communist Party offices in corporations.
01:07:22.000Trump was basically like, hey, We don't want to rule the world, man.
01:07:25.000We want the world to be stable and peaceful.
01:07:27.000And Putin was like, that's a good thing.
01:07:29.000And then what did they say in the media in the United States?
01:07:38.000I'm saying he was like, as long as, you know, Trump's not trying to conquer Russia or whatever, then we don't need to go into Ukraine and do any of that stuff.
01:07:47.000What people need to understand, and you use the term, Tim, liberal, like the liberal order.
01:07:53.000People need to remember, in terms of the classical liberal, not liberal conservative, but the liberal order, classical liberal order, liberalism in the classical sense.
01:08:02.000And the difference in between progressivism and neocons is neocons are progressivism with a fist.
01:08:11.000That's really the difference in terms of... I mean, progressives have been thrown fists quite a bit.
01:08:18.000I mean, but in terms of a lot of the foreign policy that you've kind of seen out there, and obviously they're geared towards that as well, right?
01:08:25.000I mean, Who was the bigger interventionist, Obama or Trump, right?
01:09:19.000They made a commitment to Qaddafi that if he turned over his nuclear material, that they wouldn't take him out of power.
01:09:25.000And then what that does, there was, there was, you can go look it up, but what that does- Quick, he's disarmed, get him!
01:09:31.000What that does is that makes other states Understand that, okay, they took Qaddafi out of power, they took Saddam Hussein out of power.
01:09:41.000That means that Iran only wants a nuclear missile more.
01:09:45.000That means that the North Korea only wants a nuclear missile more because what it did was told despots that if you have nuclear weapons, the U.S.
01:10:04.000And so, when we're looking at a mess of a leader, of a leadership of a government, is it really the right thing to do to destabilize a country to the point of warring military factions, militias, and slave trades?
01:10:17.000Just because it's bad in that country doesn't mean that we are not capable of making it ten times worse.
01:10:22.000It used to be a good tactic before air travel.
01:10:25.000Like, if you have enemies across the globe that are literally cannibalizing and murdering, and you want to destabilize one of them so that they all fall into a war, they kill each other, then you're able to go in and set up real liberalism, that's understandable.
01:10:38.000But now that we're interconnected, chaos over there is chaos over here.
01:10:42.000So now we're stepping on each other's feet.
01:11:56.000It could have been, hey, this is an opportunity for us.
01:11:58.000It could go as far as it was orchestrated by us.
01:12:01.000I get the vibe that it was organic in that only because there was no follow-up from the U.S.
01:12:07.000They got crushed by the governments of the Middle East, and then there was no, like, American justice here to stop you from crushing your civilians.
01:12:16.000They just let it, we all watched it happen in 2011, basically, from the sidelines.
01:12:19.000I mean, Libya escalated to the point where we removed Gaddafi.
01:12:22.000Yeah, but wasn't that like five years later or something, four years later?
01:12:25.000I mean, the country was ripped into civil war.
01:12:59.000Let's clarify, what do you mean by that?
01:13:00.000Do you mean, like, the actions taken against him made him crazy?
01:13:04.000Yeah, well, World War I obviously made him crazy, and made Germany poor, and forced Germany into a poverty state, so they were kind of, like, desperate.
01:13:13.000So, if we hadn't done that war, the World War I, would that just never really... Well, look, look, look, had we done... And it wasn't us, but yeah, it was the British, basically, and the French.
01:13:23.000No, no, no, the war started in Europe first.
01:13:42.000And like, nobody made Hitler intentionally, right?
01:13:49.000These are circumstances that arise that give opportunity to psychopaths and strongmen to manipulate, control, and then do horrifying things.
01:13:58.000If we knew for a fact that an action we took today would lead to something like that, I'm sure we would avoid it.
01:14:32.000A lot of people just think they focus on World War II, but it's like, no, you gotta look at Russia, you gotta look at Spain, Italy.
01:14:37.000A lot was going on split between the ultra-progressivists and the traditionalists.
01:14:43.000I'm trying to slow down and understand for a second.
01:14:48.000You guys don't think we should be going after any bad guys in the world?
01:14:52.000No, weren't we just diving into that about not being world police and not trying to chase after bad guys because we'd make more of them as a result?
01:15:46.000Like, articulate... Oh, okay, so the idea that I'm not anti-communist?
01:15:49.000You don't support overthrowing and fighting wars against... I spend most of my time learning about the philosophies that inform communists so I can articulate in a way that people can understand the philosophies that are Affecting our country here.
01:16:11.000We are in no position to go overseas and fight communists because right now we have a cultural revolution going on in our country.
01:16:20.000If you are not on the same page about the cultural revolution going on in our country, you can go and export all the war you want, but you're going to fall apart.
01:16:31.000States will fall from the inside if we make any effort to go to someone else's
01:16:37.000country and remove their despotic leader because he's a strong man
01:16:44.000that has used communist rhetoric to get into power. So you're anti-communist
01:16:49.000domestically, internationally, not anti-communist.
01:16:54.000The biggest threat to liberalism in the world is the United States falling to communism.
01:17:00.000Currently, we are fighting to prevent the United States from having a complete cultural revolution which turns us into essentially China with American characteristics.
01:17:11.000And being for or against intervention does not mean you are for or against communism.
01:17:18.000Because as countries, countries interact with one another, and they're communist countries that have existed, and I think we should work against them, because they continue to spread the values that you continue to say that you're- That's not invading!
01:17:29.000Also, communism also oppresses the people within their countries.
01:17:32.000We should be worried about the millions oppressed in other- I don't like anti-far leftists.
01:17:39.000I do not actively go out and seek out their events to try and stop them from holding them.
01:17:43.000That does not mean that I'm supporting Antifa.
01:19:19.000I saw Elon outside with no mustache, and the mustache jumped on his face and he went...
01:19:25.000It sounds like, Phil, you're particularly against this CIA doctrine of the jackals sending in the economic warfare, the economic hitmen, where they'll send in first, they try and bribe the country.
01:19:34.000If it doesn't work, then they'll send in hitmen to assassinate.
01:19:36.000If that doesn't work, they send in the troops.
01:19:38.000I don't have a particular policy preference that the United States should take about how to deal with other countries and their political philosophy.
01:19:49.000But what if they start invading and conquering their neighbors?
01:19:53.000Well, I mean, it depends on... I think you need to make a U.S.
01:19:56.000national interest calculation on that.
01:20:06.000national security interest, a kind of real politic that you got to take a look at when you're looking at these issues.
01:20:12.000And is it an existential threat to our way of life, to our economy, to what... There are times where we do have to act, but it's not every time.
01:21:31.000The globalist elite, the Davos group, these psychopaths, the imperialists, they're benefiting from it if they win, but the American people are only losing out because of it.
01:21:42.000To be fair, There's a such a big complicated picture.
01:21:47.000The United States has all of its wealth because we have guns and because we're willing to go to war.
01:21:51.000The Federal Reserve, we print money and we have the reserve currency and then these powerful elites are willing to just go and destroy whatever to maintain that.
01:21:59.000And this is why we have lazy entitled city urban liberal types Who don't do real work but somehow have access to all of this food and wealth and luxury.
01:22:10.000I do not believe that's good for this country.
01:22:13.000I do not believe the path that we've been going on culturally in this country is good for humans or Americans.
01:22:18.000What America should be is hard-working individuals who take responsibility for themselves, who give people the civil rights they deserve.
01:22:27.000Instead what we have is Powerful global elites who think that we should be at war in Ukraine, be at war with Russia, remove Putin, remove all opposition, expand our military bases, so that we can maintain the reserve currency, so that we can live fat and happy in our country without doing any work.
01:22:42.000I don't see a net benefit to that in the long run.
01:22:43.000No, I think that if we culturally were sufficient, people around Earth would be joining us.
01:22:48.000They would try to create a United States of their own.
01:22:50.000I think that that's a whole lot of assumption.
01:22:52.000When we went into Iraq, they were of the mind that all they had to do was get Saddam out of power, and then all the Iraqi people would say, oh, we want democracy, we love democracy, now we're liberals.
01:23:17.000I think these people totally understand what they're doing.
01:23:18.000I think the war machine knew, we're going to go into an entirely foreign culture that does not care for what we think, has a different God than us, and we're going to have to shake the minds of these people.
01:23:31.000The reason why we wanted our troops in Afghanistan for as long as possible was because we wanted to create three generations of Americanized Afghanis to create and build a country.
01:23:41.000We knew we weren't going to be welcomed as liberators in Iraq.
01:23:45.000We had to spark a culture revolution and force these people to live under our rules.
01:24:44.000I mean there's a massive miscalculation that there was going to be this like kind of like multiculturalism kumbaya like we have in the United States over in Iraq and that's not...
01:25:01.000Sunni and Shia, and I'm not an expert in any fashion, but is it the derivation from Muhammad's direct descendants became the Sunni, and then Muhammad's daughter's direct descendants became the Shia?
01:26:55.000But, you know, it is funny to think about, though, just to go back, if we invaded, like, Iraq today and we're like, hey guys, we've got this thing called Pride Month we're gonna bring to Iraq.
01:27:17.000Maybe we should bring those liberal values over there.
01:27:20.000I heard a saying that dudes in the military brought back that they'd heard Afghani men saying, boys are for pleasure, women are for babies.
01:27:28.000I just want to make sure I highlight this just to clarify.
01:28:18.000Yeah, so I guess, correct me if I'm wrong, but it's that when the settlers came to the country, they settled in all these areas where it was easy to travel, but West Virginia is very mountainous, so getting wagons up there was difficult, so they mostly avoided it.
01:28:33.000Now we have improved roads and travel, it's a lot easier to live here, and so you end up with a decent amount of people.
01:28:38.000But it's only like eight generations removed, 15 generations removed.
01:28:42.000But it's crazy, like surrounding West Virginia is a very, very dense population.
01:29:33.000So all of that urban liberal stuff is very close, and the funny thing about D.C.
01:29:38.000and Baltimore is that a lot of these well-to-do liberal types buy property in West Virginia, where it's safer, the property's nicer, and then they bring their garbage views with them, but they're trying to escape what they've built.
01:29:51.000They work in D.C., they come stay here, and it's like, what I really love is the Facebook groups where you can tell who's from DC when they move out.
01:31:36.000When I first, the first gun I bought they put me on a three-day, they did not respond to the background check until it, there's a law basically they cannot deny you, so after three days their right to a background check expires.
01:31:49.000Do you think that background checks are reasonable?
01:31:52.000It's a difficult question, because you open the door to restrictions on all things, and it's like,
01:32:00.000how many inches do I want to give the people that want to strip me of my rights? So,
01:32:04.000in the honest and the most honest sense, yes, they're reasonable.
01:32:11.000In the political sense, absolutely not.
01:32:13.000These people who are coming up being like, we need universal background checks.
01:32:23.000So if it was a read-only process where they could access data, but they're not putting in data that I'm getting the thing, that might be more reasonable.
01:32:30.000You know, it's funny you bring this up because we dealt with this in West Virginia.
01:32:34.000I had a big win this year around this.
01:32:36.000So We did a piece of legislation out of my office on the National Gun Registry that the credit card companies and banks were trying to institute through the Merchant Category Code.
01:32:57.000Elizabeth Warren and the rest of the crew wanted to put in guns and ammunition specifically so they could start to track that and then have finance, this is an ESG issue, and then have the banks and credit card companies flag what they deem as suspicious activity.
01:33:15.000So we put a bill in the legislature passed And this was the tricky thing, not to necessarily just ban the code, but create, you know what banks hate?
01:33:38.000So Visa and MasterCard then issued a statement publicly, nationally, saying, due to the legislation in the state of West Virginia, we're going to pause implementing this, not just in West Virginia, but in the entire United States.
01:34:09.000If you, through due process, your rights can be curtailed.
01:34:13.000If you in some way, say you're notorious, son of a politician, well known for doing crack or something, and you try to acquire a weapon, I think it is idealistically reasonable to say, We should be able to figure out if this, you know, politician's son, who does a lot of crack, is trying to buy a weapon, because we don't trust this guy.
01:34:33.000But realistically, you can't do it without infringing on someone's rights, so the only thing you can really do is just say no.
01:34:39.000The real issue is, if we say through due process you can't buy a gun, and you do, you broke the law, and then we have to then go and arrest you.
01:34:46.000I could be wrong, but I think you have the right to own a gun, but not necessarily, does it say anywhere in there about purchase, does it?
01:36:09.000I know people, I know people who have gone to prison.
01:36:12.000I know a guy who was not from Illinois, from California, had guns in his trunk, drove through Illinois, got pulled over, arrested him on the spot, put him in prison on the spot, and now he's a permanent, he became a quote-unquote permanent resident of Illinois because they wouldn't let him leave.
01:36:25.000It does require responsibility and knowing the law is a big part of being responsible.
01:36:31.000You have certain federal presumptions in that if you're on an interstate highway and you're carrying a weapon in your trunk or something, they aren't supposed to be able to criminally charge you in these states.
01:37:10.000Some states will require you to tell them and stuff like that, but if you...
01:37:14.000Do what the officer is telling you, you're probably not going to get searched.
01:37:19.000You know, like, you have a fourth amendment right to say, no, I don't submit to searches.
01:37:23.000They're probably going to say, well, then you got to get out of the car and I'm going to detain you and I'm going to get a dog and they'll run the dog.
01:38:37.000Yeah, he said, look, I'm not endorsing these people.
01:38:40.000I'm just tracking some of these more extremist views.
01:38:42.000I don't like some of these people are obviously bad.
01:38:44.000Andrew Tate, of course, blah, blah, blah.
01:38:46.000And it's like, OK, dude, like, you know, you don't you don't you don't need our support if you don't want to stand up for what you believe in.
01:38:51.000Nick Merck said, I stand by what I said.
01:39:18.000I do similar things if I don't want to retweet.
01:39:19.000I'll like so I can go to my like tab and see, it basically bookmarks them for me.
01:39:23.000If that's the case, well, it's not an issue of cancellation of somebody who believes in American values, it's a lefty type who hates us, so why support him?
01:39:32.000Yeah, I didn't realize that he was, uh... I mean, look up the story from, I think it's Lamb of Goat or something?
01:40:06.000Yeah, Zach Voorhees was saying that in the very last resort in these data centers, they've got literal blades where you hit a button and the blade gets dropped down and cut the wiring, the cords.
01:40:17.000And he was like, he almost pressed it once because the alarm went off and he was like, do I, do I hit the button?
01:41:00.000But we were talking about all the different scenarios that AI is going to bring about, and Zach was talking about how in his work with AI, it started to create its own moral structures.
01:41:11.000And he was like, it's crazy to see that a predictive language model is now making arguments about its morals.
01:44:02.000Joseph Ray says, while I'm listening to this live stream at work through my headphones, my Gen Z coworker is listening to Hasan's stream at the exact same time.
01:44:32.000Like he is he is the himbo. He is pretty that's why he's a big attractive looking man
01:44:38.000He is not a smart guy him and lance like Same level lance from the surfs. They it's like I respect
01:44:45.000lance for trying he really did like he He actually came with notes and everything, and it was really funny how, one example I can give, when I asked him why did he think so many kids are coming out as trans, he holds up the left-handed thing.
01:45:00.000I literally asked him what his thoughts were, and then I talked about endocrine disruptors, but all these leftists made videos where they were like, Lance owns Tim Pool, questioning trans kids or whatever, and I was like, bro, I wasn't questioning him, I was literally asking him what his thoughts were.
01:45:13.000They don't know the difference between men and women.
01:45:18.000There's a funny tweet, Elon Musk, I think, tweeted something, and that Angela, what's her name, Belcamena or whatever, and she said something like, conservatives have a hard time understanding the difference between sex and gender, and I responded, I was like, Actually, I think it's liberals who are having a hard time understanding the difference.
01:45:34.000Because, like, we didn't make female sporting events because sometimes people wear dresses.
01:45:42.000That's gender yeah, we're talking about a distinction between sex, but they can't seem to figure that out I'm starting to buy there's there's an argument that there is no Gender right like that is that is relatively new concept if yeah that it's it's not Actually different from your from your sex like they're so closely related that to call them different things is wrong Dude, the idea that if you wear a dress, you're a woman is absurd considering people wear flowy robes in other countries and they're dudes.
01:46:12.000Like, go to a Scottish guy who's wearing a kilt and be like, you must be a woman.
01:46:57.000Therefore, if- and I asked him, I was like, so if you're a straight- if you're like a male, and you engage in relations with a trans woman, is that gay?
01:47:12.000No, because women, it's like, you look at how their body type is, their skin, their height, all of these things play a role.
01:47:19.000I said, okay, so what if you have a man, who identifies as a man, and he's effeminate, 5 foot 2, 120 pounds, and another man, who is 6 foot tall, and burly, decides to have relations with that other man?
01:47:49.000Because there's no logic to what they're saying.
01:47:52.000It's just like, you know what they've done?
01:47:55.000They got a jigsaw puzzle in front of them and they've started mashing random pieces together and they're just bashing them on the table to make them fit.
01:48:00.000And it goes back to this observable reality, right?
01:48:03.000Like what you can observe is real and what they're trying to do is control language and control the way that we associate with each other.
01:49:04.000So, what the left would consider gender in the United States doesn't exist outside of it.
01:49:09.000If they're saying that the social constructs around a person's sex is gender, it's different in different countries.
01:49:17.000So, the problem would be, you get a Scottish kid from a traditional Scottish family who, let's just say the kid was wearing a kilt, comes here, and they're gonna be like, that's a woman.
01:50:59.000I think Promise is early 2000s pop punk treasure.
01:51:05.000I think Here's to the Night is I don't know where I would put on the list of the best songs, of the top songs of all time, but I put it on the list.
01:51:14.000I'm not gonna compare it to Another Brick in the Wall or Time by Pink Floyd or anything, I think that'd be silly.
01:51:18.000It's like, it's not the Lord of the Rings, which is an epic, but it's up there in one of those, you know, songs like... Like the Mummy 2 or something?
01:51:27.000You know the song here tonight, right?
01:51:43.000I would love to do a cover of any one of these, but I gotta be honest, the reason I won't is because I think this guy, Max, is probably too ideological to allow something to succeed.
01:51:54.000And you'd run into him just filing DMCA's or something for political points.
01:52:00.000Which is like, dang, that's unfortunate.
01:52:01.000Unless the cover's really good, then he's gonna be jamming along.
01:52:50.000Because y'all know how January 6th went down.
01:52:53.000You might be walking down the street, and then they're gonna be like, 20 minutes ago there was a barrier there, and now you're violating federal property, so... You gotta be peaceful, but beyond that, you have to, like, have your lawyer at your side at all times, advising you on what to do.
01:53:08.000There were a lot of people on January 6th who had no idea what was going on, and watched people walking into a building as police fanned them in, and those people are now sitting in jail.
01:54:25.000Lunderwear says, I'm not a coffee drinker, but since you went with Focus with Mr. Bocas, I'm going to buy the crap out of that when it comes out.
01:55:01.000The first, I was going to say this earlier, the first time we ever talked about Black Rock Vanguard and State Street, Ian's the one who brought it up.
01:55:07.000I think it was Alex Jones in his episode, but I started hitting it really hard right away when I heard about it.
01:55:14.000And it was, I think, yeah, Vanguard was the first one I heard of.
01:55:18.000I'm glad you guys have been talking about it.
01:55:20.000I mean, when I divested from them two years ago, people were like, what the hell are you talking about?
01:56:30.000It's actually a really funny story because Shane was going to interview Alex and we were like trying to track Alex down because he's so busy.
01:56:38.000And like Alex was like, yeah, definitely let's do this.
01:56:42.000And then we were like, we don't know if we can figure out where he's going to be because he's getting bounced around and called all these different things.
01:56:47.000And I'm talking to Shane, I'm like, Shane, look, man, you know, Alex is very, very busy.
01:56:50.000It'd be really cool if we were able to get, but if you can't do it, you can't do it.
01:57:45.000I said they're appropriating God's covenant.
01:57:47.000They are trying to take the general concept of rainbow for themselves and taking it away from Christians.
01:57:52.000I understand God's covenant is different, but that would be like someone taking the American flag, changing it to pride colors and waving it around.
01:57:59.000And you'd be like, no, it's a totally different flag.
01:58:01.000Like, no, they're, they're taking the American flag and they do this.
01:58:05.000I told Seamus, I'm like, Christians should absolutely take the rainbow.
01:59:02.000Most people are comfortable with gay people, with homosexuals, lesbians, and I think that our society will have very little problem assimilating or making concessions for trans people.
01:59:17.000But what we can't do is allow a In an ideology that is intentionally subversive to undermine the structure of our society.
01:59:54.000People in this sphere love Blair White.
01:59:59.000The issue is the communism, the American traditional and classical liberalism works, but communists are trying to subvert and destroy it.
02:00:09.000And it's not, are you not saying that, like, hate and ignore the theory of queerness, when you say queer theory, it's an actual indoctrinative tactic?
02:00:16.000Queer theory is based on the idea that there should be no gender.
02:00:23.000There are gender abolitionists, and I don't want to try to get too deep in explaining queer theory because I'm not well-versed enough to explain it to someone.
02:00:35.000I can understand it, I can identify it, but for me to articulate it properly, I would probably do it disservice.